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The Fine Arms
Geopolitics of Contemporary Art
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Contemporary art and its central role in the global geopolitical landscape
Contemporary art and its central role in the global geopolitical landscape
Contemporary art, positioned at the heart of markets and trends, defines a country's actual power and contributes to shaping it. Contrary to the familiar mantras, it has no special ability to ease conflicts or encourage brotherhood among peoples-especially in a time when it has become a major factor of geopolitical leverage and in an era of renewed nationalism.
Declaring the category of soft power obsolete, The Fine Arms explores in the first part the relationship of contemporary art with various spheres (religion, violence, tourism, globalization, the market...), while in the second part it examines its growing centrality in 25 countries through monographic chapters: from major imperial powers (USA, China, Russia) to emerging powers such as Turkey, India, South Africa; from the cultural powers of old Europe to the brief existence of the Islamic Caliphate between Iraq and Syria. The book also examines the link between neo-imperial conflicts and the spread of contemporary art.
Contemporary art, positioned at the heart of markets and trends, defines a country's actual power and contributes to shaping it. Contrary to the familiar mantras, it has no special ability to ease conflicts or encourage brotherhood among peoples-especially in a time when it has become a major factor of geopolitical leverage and in an era of renewed nationalism.
Declaring the category of soft power obsolete, The Fine Arms explores in the first part the relationship of contemporary art with various spheres (religion, violence, tourism, globalization, the market...), while in the second part it examines its growing centrality in 25 countries through monographic chapters: from major imperial powers (USA, China, Russia) to emerging powers such as Turkey, India, South Africa; from the cultural powers of old Europe to the brief existence of the Islamic Caliphate between Iraq and Syria. The book also examines the link between neo-imperial conflicts and the spread of contemporary art.
Extent: 288 pp
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 2026-11-25
Size: 21.0 x 15.0 cm
ISBN: 9788857254609
About the Author
Enrico Mascelloni, art critic and curator, writes about art and geopolitics. He has traveled throughout Asia and Africa since the 1970s. His reading of the relationship between contemporary art and geopolitics has involved some of the boldest movements of the Western avant-garde (Promoting the Flood. Fluxus in Its Time, Parise, 1995), and has focused on the visual renewal of Central Asia (The Tamerlane Syndrome. Art and Conflicts in Central Asia, Skira, 2004; War Rugs. The Nightmare of Modernism, Skira, 2008) and sub-Saharan Africa (The Return of the Magicians: The Sacred in Contemporary African Art, Skira, 1999).
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